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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] another snag:  emerge -Up --deep gtkhtml
From:       Jim Bowlin <bowlin () mindspring ! com>
Date:       2003-04-30 18:13:32
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On Wednesday 30 April 2003 07:37 am, Denys Duchier wrote:

> I hope my continued reports on "emerge -U" are neither out of place
> nor too tiresome.  Today, I "emerge sync"'d, tried "emerge -Up --deep
> world" and got the following error: [snip]

I've been watching this thread http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=303720
which echos what I've seen myself: -U seems to be flakey.  I'd like to try
to fix this but I don't want to reinvent the wheel.  Is someone already
working on this problem?  Is version 2.0 about to come out?

If the answers are 'no' and 'no', does anyone know the current state?
It seems that a fix involves  is_newer_ver_installed() in /usr/bin/emerge
and xmatch() in portage.py.  They look a little cryptic.

It seems to me, perhaps nievely, that all that is needed is a list of
installed packages and a method for ordering version numbers.

Peace, Jim Bowlin

PS: If this is not the correct place to post this message please LMK.

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